On Conan, Myq Kaplan ponders time travel
by Myq Kaplan returned to the Conan program on the TBS last night. Kaplan ponders the idea of a Buddhist extremist, as well as zombie Hitler, …
WGA chooses 101 “Best Written TV Series of All Time”
If the Writers Guild of America membership is to be believed, half of the best-written TV series of all time just so happened to have …
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A look back at Richard Pryor: “Omit the Logic”
Ask most comedians today who they love and loved watching perform, and Richard Pryor’s name is more likely than not to make the cut as …
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Before SNL: The Lonely Island’s history with MTV, FOX and Comedy Central
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taconne were childhood friends in Berkeley, Calif., who went off to separate colleges before reuniting and forming The Lonely …
“Why does my vagina have to be your crutch?” Lindy West debates Jim Norton on FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell
If you’re looking for a healthy, lengthy debate about how comedy and feminism don’t have to be mutually exclusive concepts that tear at each other …
Review: Colin Quinn, “Unconstitutional,” at Barrow Street Theatre
If “Long Story Short” told the story of the rise and fall of every empire, including our own, then Colin Quinn’s new one-man show, “Unconstitutional,” …
Review: Trevor Noah, “Born a Crime”
Growing up in South Africa with an African mother and a Swiss-German father, the nation’s prevailing policy of Apartheid at the time meant that Trevor Noah had …
Comedy Central cancels Ugly Americans
Comedy Central has cancelled Ugly Americans. If this is news to you, or even more so, if you didn’t realize this was news, there’s a …
Amazon orders up series for sitcoms “Alpha House” and “Betas”
If you say it’s all Greek to you when it comes to figuring out how Amazon.com’s Amazon Studios would make sense of its first wave …
Comedy Headlines for 5/29/13
What’s making news in comedy… Comedy Central has renewed Inside Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer’s sketch comedy series, currently airing on Tuesday nights, will return with …